What Will It Take to Address the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?

Steven J Hoffman; Kevin Outterson

doi:10.1111/jlme.12253

What Will It Take to Address the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?

J Law Med Ethics. 2015 Summer;43(2):363-8. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12253.

Authors

Steven J Hoffman¹, Kevin Outterson²

Affiliations

¹ Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa with courtesy appointments as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Part-Time) at McMaster University and Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health & Population at Harvard University. He previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, World Health Organization, and the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.
² Professor of Law and the N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law at Boston University School of Law, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

PMID: 26242959
DOI: 10.1111/jlme.12253

Abstract

In March 2015, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation convened a workshop in Uppsala, Sweden to address questions about antibiotic resistance, in partnership with the Global Strategy Lab, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME), the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance. Eleven concise articles were commissioned to explore whether ABR depended on global collective action, and if so, what tools could help states and non-state actors to achieve it. This article introduces that collection, which is found in an online-only symposium at aslme.org.

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Drug Resistance, Microbial*
Global Health*
Humans
Public Health*